Design and optimization of an arbitrarily segmented traveling wave electrode for an ultrahigh speed electroabsorption modulator

Optics Communications

Volumn 281, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 5177-5182

  Tang, Yongbo ^a   Yu, Yichuan ^a   Ye, Yuqian ^a   Westergren, Urban ^b   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electroabsorption; Electrodes; Genetic algorithm; Optical intensity modulation; Transmission line theory; Traveling wave (TW) devices; Waveguide modulators

Indexed keywords

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; ELECTROLYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALLIZING; MODULATORS; OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDS;

3 DB BANDWIDTH; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; ELECTROABSORPTION; ELECTRODE LAYOUT; ELECTRODE STRUCTURES; ELECTRODES; EYE DIAGRAMS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; INTEGRATED RESISTORS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MODULATION RESPONSE; OPTICAL INTENSITY MODULATION; OPTICAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; TERMINATION CONDITION; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; TRAVELING WAVE (TW) DEVICES; TRAVELING-WAVE ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATOR; TRAVELING-WAVE ELECTRODES; ULTRA-HIGH SPEED; WAVEGUIDE MODULATORS;

MODULATION;

EID: 50449109737     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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